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Day9 is the best of ’em but his shows tend to run long, so it’s not the most exciting introduction ever. I personally started with Husky for superficial, surface-level entertainment to ease myself into the franchise. Then I moved onto Day9 when I was ready to learn more about the game and how it all works.

http://twitter.com/peterchristy Peter Christy

Thanks Alex, I’ll check those out.

http://taufmonster.blogspot.com Henry Phillips

Alex is definitely right here. I’d start with Husky for pure entertainment, and if you’re interested, Day[9] is more informative while still being incredibly entertaining.

http://taufmonster.blogspot.com Henry Phillips

I was really into LoTR games in my teenage years. LoTR: The Two Towers was a decent game, but really set the stage for the amazing LoTR: The Return of the King. Both games were hack and slash games. Return of the King had really great co-op fighting. I loved the crap out of that game.

Then there was LoTR: The Third Age. This was a turn-based RPG that had absolutely fantastic gameplay, and the shittiest story. The game had a turn-order listing like in Final Fantasy X. Most of the player and enemy special moves were based around debuffs/buffs. Quick strike, stuns, initiative delays, poisons, and powerful heals. Poisons were also particularly strong. If you didn’t use these buff/debuff abilities during combat you’d lose. I’d sum it up as WoW PVP, the Lord of the Rings RPG. It was absolutely amazing.

You played as another fellowship (without hobbits) that is actively trying to catch up to the main fellowship (if I remember correctly/they also never do catch up). Your band of characters eventually fights on the fields of Pelennor against orcs and mumaks and eventually fights against the Eye of Sauron itself, killing him (or at least his eye/avatar) yourself. I think EA had the rights to the scenario but not the rights to use the likenesses of the major characters. That’s the only justification I have for this terrible story.

But I love that game so much.

Then there were the RTS’s. There was LoTR: The War of the Ring made by Sierra which was a pretty Warcraft III’esque RPG with hero units and was bad. Then there was LoTR: The Battle for Middle Earth by EA, which was really neat.

I haven’t played Aragorn’s Quest. War in the North looks good to me, but I have so many other things to play and Uncharted 3 comes out this week too.

Anyway, that’s my spiel about Lord of the Rings games.

nathan eisenmenger

Well golly guys, a copy of Bastion would just be Swell.

http://twitter.com/TheDreadfulBore Bore

People should say golly more often.

http://twitter.com/tokenbg1009 Jeffery Tingle

Picked up Bioshock 2 (finally), Borderlands and Dr. Ned (which by the way for the same price I could’ve got the game of the year but it wasn’t advertised in the list), S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Overlord from the steam sale. Hoping that come Black Friday Deus Ex and Arkham City will be discounted so I can pick those up. Already had Vampire from a while back when it was a Midweek Madness sale awhile back and I AM a huge fan of White Wolf games and can’t wait for CCP’s VtM MMO (holy acronyms Batman)

Anonymous

Pokemon was awesome when I was a kid. But I agree with Mat I tried to go back and watch it and it’s not as entertaining as it was when I was younger lol.

http://twitter.com/MattCare Matt Care

I LOVED the Bastion soundtrack, but I’m a poor(like McCurley), and I haven’t been able to buy it. I’d love a copy! :)

http://twitter.com/ksarge49 Kyle Sargent

“Rossi’s several incompatible mindchildren aren’t fighting. they’re
violently screwing, and out of this brain-intercourse is going to arise
an unpredictable hybrid of startling portent.”

Incredible.

Great show as always!

Hunter Meiser

nice beard

Anonymous

Do you have a Charizard?

http://twitter.com/tedluck Theodore J. Luckman

“Has it ever occured to you that I might have other things on my mind? News flash, Kimberly: You are not the center of everyone’s universe.”

Anonymous

Thanks for the great show you put on every week guys. The random conversations are much more interesting than the video game talk in my opinion, but I usually end up falling to Rossi’s campaign of insanity and buy most of the games he recommends. (Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and ME 2) I had owned Fallout for a long time before I decided to play it on your recommendations. I look forward to listening to your show every week. Love the show, keep up the good work.

Sincerely,

Encaledus

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VGXYQKCJRT3PFZ4HP5L4S6ZIBE Gordon

Well, I knew a guy who once dug out his grandfather’s hidden cashbox that was buried in the backyard and proceeded to buy $1000 bucks worth of Star Wars Trading Card game cards in $200 buck chunks once a week. What a crappy way to blow a K.

http://www.facebook.com/joseph.spivey Joseph Spivey

I like the random conversations too, you guys should do another podcasts that has nothing but an hour of random topics :P

I do need to check out Rossi’s book though, it sounds interesting.

Justyna Kolniak

Great show as always.
I’d love to get Rossi’s book, but I’d love to get it as an ebook.
Paying 19$ for book and 20$ for shipping is a bit to much for me.